@mrjyn
July 6, 2009
Who Killed Elvis?
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
Ex-Mr. Priscilla Presley
Father of Lisa Marie Presley
Love Me Tender (1956) [Clint Reno]: Reportedly shot to death by Richard Egan's cohorts while trying to protect Richard. (Thanks to Robert)
Flaming Star (1960) [Pacer Burton]: Mortally wounded in an off-screen battle with the Kiowa warriors; we see him ride into town after the battle to say goodbye to his brother (Steve Forrest), then ride off into the distance to die.
Frankie and Johnny (1966) [Johnny]: Reportedly shot by Donna Douglas in a play-within-the-film sequence. (Thanks to John)
every little meth - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
every little meth - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
every little meth by Abraham Smith runt crouched in
the dark part of the culvert
every sugar road
half a bag shy
of the flour roads
every here we go crow
spoiled at the touch
of gun holes in signs
love is inside
light wet seeds
nailed into
the crawlspace
between eyetooth
and barred goon
Andy Warhol: Marilyn Game: Warhol Talks on "The right color"
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was a key figure in Pop Art, an art movement that emerged in America and elsewhere in the 1950s to become prominent over the next two decades. The Fauves used non-representational color and representational form to convey different sensations. Apply the same idea to the portrait of Marilyn Monroe below, using the controls to adjust the colors. How does the color affect the mood?
Unlike the Fauve colors, the non-representational colors of Pop Art do not depict the artist’s inner sensation of the world. They refer to the popular culture, which also inspires Warhol to experiment with the technique of silkscreen printing, a popular technique used for mass production. In doing so, Warhol moves away from the elitist avant-garde tradition. Initially, many spectators received this new marriage between art and commodity culture with little enthusiasm.
Warhol was fascinated with morbid concepts. Sometimes, however, the results are astonishingly beautiful, such as the resonating, brilliantly colored images of Marilyn Monroe. The Marilyn canvases were early examples of Warhol’s use of silkscreen printing, a method the artist experimented with, recalling: In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it. When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month, I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face the first Marilyns. Using photo-stencils in screen-printing, Warhol uses photographic images for his screenprints. The screen is prepared using a photographic process, and then different color inks are printed using a rubber squeegee to press the paint onto the painting through the screen. |